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| Government under democracy is thus government by orgy, almost by orgasm | | Uncategorized | |
| Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives | | Uncategorized | |
| Gynecologists: perhaps the most ignorant class of men, when it comes to knowledge of women, in the country | | Uncategorized | |
| Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene and low down, and its salient virtuosi a gang of umitigated scoundrels? Then let us not forget its high capacity to soo | | Uncategorized | |
| Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates. | | Uncategorized | |
| He (the businessman) is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation | | Business; Work | |
| He marries best who puts it off until it is too late | | Uncategorized | |
| He uses his sources as a drunkard uses lampposts; not to light him upon his way, but to dissimulate his instability | | Uncategorized | |
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| History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men | | God; History | |
| Honor is simply the morality of superior men. | | Honor | |
| How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh | | Uncategorized | |
| Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually seem to have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them. | | Happiness; Perseverance | |
| Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient | | Husbands | |
| I am not only wrong, it appears, I am also immoral - the familiar step in Puritan logic | | Uncategorized | |
| I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. | | Uncategorized | |
| I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. | | Government | |
| I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms | | Government | |
| I believe that any man or woman who, for a period of say five years, has earned his or her living in some lawful and useful occupation, without any recourse to public assistance, should be allowed to vote and that no one else should be allowed to vot | | Uncategorized | |
| I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. | | Uncategorized | |
